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Very interesting idea by @seldo.com to solve open source funding. Have PyPI and npm be the ones to charge corporates for downloads and distribute it to maintainers. I like several aspects, I would pay if I was charged. seldo.com/posts/nobody...

seldo.comNobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.comThirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix:...

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Charging corporates it's easy (a contract, a counter, the PSF charges). Distributing to maintainers is very, very difficult. For example, how do you send 3 dollars to somebody in Argentina, or Iran, or Nigeria?